FOUR WEEKS AND NOTHING DONE

Chronicle (Levin), 9 April 1947, Page 5

FOUR WEEKS AND NOTHING DONE

poor results from moscow conference MOSCOW, April 7. : The Foreign Monsters, after sittmg for 210 tainui es, aehieved, accorcling to tlie Hritish spokesman, ahsolut.elv. nothing'. The Alinisters for the second time began the meeting an hpur late heeause they had not recei\'ed the report froni tlie Coordinating Committee. Mr. Bevin remarked at the end of, the proceediiigs that they had heen in Moscow for four weeks and had done nothing. .They were still on the first ltem of the agendit agreed o'h 'at lNew Mork. This agenda covered seven items. In addition, there had heen severai other points raised since the Moscow meeting began, so there were now 14 points left on the agenda. Mr. Bevinks stateinent followed a sugges,tion made near the close of the, session that a disagreed point be sent haclc to the Coordinating Committee. Tlie Foreign Ministers will eonsider tomorrow the draft of the Coordiiiating Committee on wliieh they had reached 110 agreement and will again go through the draft point hy point. | During the discussion on the establisliment of a Gerrnan provisional g'overnment Mr. Molotov urged a plebiscite to allow the Germans to decide , wliether they wanted a unifled or a federal Genuany. Mr. Bevin said: "I won't put the security of the country I represent to a plebiscite. There are other parties to j the Comstitution of Genuany as well as the Germans, liamely., those wiiom they attacked. Iiitler used the plebiscite | when tlie Germans returned . uim by | miliions and thus destroved-the Weimar j Constitution. " v " j M. Bidault said that lie associated himself - with Mr. Bevin 's "emphatic and fearless st-atement. ' ' Mr. Marsliall said lie did not think tliev eould hope for an inteiligent response from tlie Germans at- this stage, even if a plebiscite were a practical proposition.

Tlie Foreign Ministers discussed without reaching agreement tlie use of tlie veto in Ihe proposed Gerrnan -advisory couneil and the method of electing the Gerrnan provisional governnient. The Ministers still liave to eonsider the ' following: — (1) Econoniic unity, including th* level of industry and repar-ations. (2) A further. report from the Coortinating Committee. {'/>) A furr.her report from the special committee on the remaining issues arising out of the Berlin Control ouncil's report. (4) Population problems, including' disjilaced persons -and prisoners of war. ( ~) ) Demilitarisation. ((ij The deputios' report on the pro•edure for making the peace treaty. (7) The deputies' report on their ! 'learing oi the report of the Inter-' Allied Reparations Ag-ency. (8) Tlie deputies' report on the ; uiiall Allied -n-ations' -views. (9) Territorial questions, including. tlie future of the Ruhr and the R.hine!and. (10) The proposed four-Power treaty. (11) The coal experts ' report. ; (12) The Austrian peace treaty. (13) The fmancial aspeet • of the special commission's report 011 Trieste. (14) Limitation of the occupation, forces in Genuany. Tlie Coordinating Committee today liscussed, without reaching agreement, lie powers of the provisional Gerrnan lovcrnment and the needs for ensuring he econoniic, jiuridical and financial inity of Germany, Tlie British, Russian - and Freneh mroposals more or less coineided, but %e United States demanded tlie ntinost restriction of powers of the central Gerrnan Government.